4.  The applicant was born in 1940 and lives in the village of Zidki, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.
5.  In December 2000 the applicant, a teacher by profession, brought proceedings against the Department of Education of the Leninskyy District of Kharkiv (Ленінський районний відділ освіти м. Харкова, hereafter “the Department”) claiming salary arrears, various teachers’ allowances allegedly due to her and a compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
6.  On 4 January 2001 the Zmiyivskyy District Court (Зміївський районний суд, hereafter, “the Zmiyivskyy Court”) found against the applicant. The applicant appealed. On 13 February 2001 the Kharkiv Regional Court (Харківський обласний суд) quashed this judgment in part concerning the teachers’ allowances and remitted the case for a fresh consideration. The remainder of the judgment was upheld.
7.  On 31 May 2001 the Zmiyivskyy Court found in part for the applicant and awarded her 1,386.06[1] Ukrainian hryvnias (UAH) in compensation for teachers’ allowances. This judgment was not appealed against within the statutory time-limit and thus became final and enforceable.
8.  By a separate procedural decision of the same date the Zmiyivskyy Court rejected the applicant’s request to institute proceedings before the Constitutional Court (Конституційний Суд України) on compliance of the 1999 Law on Secondary Education with the Constitution of Ukraine.
9.  On 3 July 2001 the Zmiyivskyy Court corrected an arithmetical mistake in its judgment of 31 May 3001 and changed the amount of the applicant’s award to UAH 1,499.29[2].
10.  On the same date the Department filed an appeal against the judgment of 31 May 2001. On 10 July 2001 the Zmiyivskyy Court declared this appeal inadmissible as being lodged out of time. On 3 December 2001 the same court found inadmissible the Department’s appeal against the decision of 10 July 2001 as it had been signed by an unauthorised person. The Department appealed.
11.  On 19 February 2002 the Kharkiv Regional Court of Appeal (Апеляційний суд Харківської області, the former Kharkiv Regional Court as renamed on 29 June 2001) quashed the decision of 3 December 2001 and remitted the question of the admissibility of the appeal against the decision of 10 July 2001 for a fresh consideration. The applicant filed an appeal in cassation against this decision.
12.  On 28 May 2002 the Supreme Court (Верховний Суд України) upheld the decision of 19 February 2002. On 13 September 2002 the Supreme Court refused the applicant’s request to review this matter on the ground of new circumstances.
13.  On 26 June 2003 the Zmiyivskyy Court again declared the Department’s appeal inadmissible as being signed by an unauthorised person.
14.  On 14 October 2003 the applicant requested leave to lodge an appeal under the new cassation procedure against the first instance judgment of 4 January 2001 and appeal decision of 13 February 2001 whereby her claims for salary arrears and moral damages were rejected and the Zmiyivskyy Court’s judgment of 31 May 2001 in which her claims for allowances had not been allowed in their eternity.
15.  On 15 April 2004 the Supreme Court refused the applicant leave to appeal under the new cassation procedure.
16.  On 3 August 2001 the Bailiffs’ Service of the Leninsky District of Kharkiv (Відділ державної виконавчої служби Ленінського районного управління юстиції м. Харкова, hereafter, “the Bailiffs’ Service”) instituted enforcement proceedings in respect of the Zmiyivskyy Court’s judgment of 31 May 2001.
17.  According to the Government, by letter of 26 September 2001 a judge of the Zmiyivskyy Court informed the Bailiffs’ Service about the appeal against the judgment of 31 May 2001, filed by the Department (see paragraph 10 above), and indicated that it was necessary to suspend the enforcement proceedings pending the outcome of the appeal proceedings. Thereupon the Bailiffs’ Service suspended the enforcement proceedings. The Government added that the destruction of the materials relating to the enforcement proceedings upon expiry of the archiving period prevented them from submitting relevant copies.
18.  On 10 October 2003 the enforcement proceedings were terminated because the amount, awarded to the applicant by the judgment of 31 May 2001 was paid to her in full.